Barbaric Bastards
What happens in Afghanistan when young girls run away from forced marriages. Source: New York Times
Singam Review – Sin to Watch Such Trash
(Bollywood film Singham is a remake of the Tamil Singam) Oh, no. Singam is not a bad movie. Most definitely not. Au contraire, it’s a hideously awful movie. Asingam (trashy), to use an apposite Tamil term. Sick. Crude. Trashy. Ugly. All of the above appellations fit this depressingly disgusting film to a T. If Singam […]
Singam First Half – Garbage
Via iPhone Thank God for the intermission. Folks, this is a much needed intermission from the Singam nonsense. Not one redeeming element so far in the movie. Prakash Raj as the villain is the usual screaming Kollywood bad guy. Surya as the police inspector doesn’t shine. Not in the least. Anushka is literally the ‘irritating […]
Watching Surya’s Singam – Poor Opening
Via iPhone We’ve braved the heavy Memorial Day traffic in the U.S. to watch Sori Padam Surya’s Singam. There are only 12 people for the opening show of Singam at a theater on the East Coast. Poor opening. Not a good omen. Surya’s recent movies Adhavan, Ayan, Vaaranam Aayiram, Vel et al have all been […]
IBM Opens Multi-Million Dollar Security Operations Center in Bangalore
IBM has established a security operations center in Bangalore, the information technology giant’s ninth such facility in the world. The Bangalore center will provide managed security services, real-time analysis and early warning notification of security events to its managed security services clients worldwide. IBM is said to have 4,000 security services clients around the world. […]
In Bruges Review – OMG, What a Fine Movie!
We’re mildly high on Orberry, a variation of the venerable Martini that we made and consumed not too long ago. So we can’t even remember how we stumbled upon the English film In Bruges that we watched yesterday. In any case, we’ve spent the better part of today hurling choice epithets at ourselves for not […]